Originally Posted by
meowzer
http:///forum/post/3185783
So are you saying this is normal???? and that you have not seen this with the ones pictured above???
"Normality," Margaret Mead tells us, "is culturally defined" . . . In other words my dear; what is normal in my tank, may not be normal in yours.
That said however . . . yes I am saying that it is normal with the common button polyps - I personally have seen this occur in multiple tanks, multiple times with the various colors (brown, green, and red) of common button polyps.
No, I have not seen what you pictured/described above occur with that particular zoa, since if I recall correctly, you claimed in other posts not only self-fragged but morphed under the same lighting/tank conditions as well.
Have I seen other types of zoa colonies drop polyps on occassion? Yes. Do I consider this normal behavior on the scale that Henry seems to be describing in the original post? No; if it was, people would not need to cut frags in order to sell frags, they could simply wait for colonies to begin self dispersing, pick up the polyps, glue them to frag discs, and sell/trade them. Is it know for various zoas and/or palys to self distribut themselves throughout an aquarium? Yes. What do I consider to be the most likely explaination of what Henry is describing in the original post? Unless his friend is dealing with button polyps, I consider the most likely explaination to be that something is pulling polyps off of the main colony - could be a crab, could be a shrimp, could be a large brittle star, a fish, or any number of things.
Does that answer your questions?
